Rabbah
rab'-a:
(1) (rabbah; Rhabba, Rhabbath, Rhabban. The full name is
rabbath bene `ammon; he akra ton huion Ammon, Rhabbath huion
Ammon, "Rabbah of the children of Ammon"): This alone of the
cities of the Ammonites is mentioned in Scripture, so we may
take it as the most important. It is first named in
connection with the "bed" or sarcophagus of O...
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1. Also called RABBATH
A city east of the Jordan River, originally belonging to
the
Ammonites
Jos 13:25
Bedstead of the giant named Og, kept at
De 3:11
Captured by David
2Sa 11:1; 12:26-31; 1Ch 20:1-3
Possessed again by the Ammonites; prophesied against
Jer 49:2,3; Eze 21:20; 25:5; Am 1:14
-2. A city in the territory of the tribe of Juda...
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(great).
1. A very strong place on the east of the Jordan,
and the chief city of the Ammonites. In five passages -- De
3:11; 2Sa 12:26; 17:27; Jer 49:2; Eze 21:20 --it is styled
at length Rabbath of the Ammonites, or the children of
Ammon; but elsewhere, Jos 13:25; 2Sa 11:1; 12:27,29; 1Ch
20:1; Jer 49:3 simply Rabbah. When first named it is
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or Rab'bath, great. (1.) "Rabbath of the children of Ammon,"
the
chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern
hills, some 20
miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two
streams
which united with the Jabbok. Here the bedstead of
Og was
preserved (Deut. 3:11), perhaps as a trophy of some
victory
gained by the Ammonites over the k...
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("greatness of size or numbers".)
1. Ammon's chief city, its only city named in
Scripture, in contrast to the more civilized Moab's numerous
cities (Deuteronomy 3:11; 2 Samuel 12:26; 2 Samuel 17:27;
Jeremiah 49:2; Ezekiel 21:20). (See AMMON.) Conjectured to
be the Ham of the Zuzim (Genesis 14:5). After Hanun's insult
Abishai and Joab defeate...
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites;
and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be
burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that
were his heirs, saith the LORD....
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And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time
when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his
servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the
children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried
still at Jerusalem....
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And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that
Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the
Gileadite of Rogelim,...
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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his
priests and his princes together....
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